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Identity as a Service:ListOrganizationalUnitParents

Last Updated:Aug 04, 2025

Queries all parent organizational units of a specified EIAM organizational unit. The returned organizational units are sorted in hierarchical order from the highest level to the lowest level.

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RAM authorization

The table below describes the authorization required to call this API. You can define it in a Resource Access Management (RAM) policy. The table's columns are detailed below:

  • Action: The actions can be used in the Action element of RAM permission policy statements to grant permissions to perform the operation.

  • API: The API that you can call to perform the action.

  • Access level: The predefined level of access granted for each API. Valid values: create, list, get, update, and delete.

  • Resource type: The type of the resource that support authorization to perform the action. It indicates if the action supports resource-level permission. The specified resource must be compatible with the action. Otherwise, the policy will be ineffective.

    • For APIs with resource-level permissions, required resource types are marked with an asterisk (*). Specify the corresponding Alibaba Cloud Resource Name (ARN) in the Resource element of the policy.

    • For APIs without resource-level permissions, it is shown as All Resources. Use an asterisk (*) in the Resource element of the policy.

  • Condition key: The condition keys defined by the service. The key allows for granular control, applying to either actions alone or actions associated with specific resources. In addition to service-specific condition keys, Alibaba Cloud provides a set of common condition keys applicable across all RAM-supported services.

  • Dependent action: The dependent actions required to run the action. To complete the action, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform all dependent actions.

Action

Access level

Resource type

Condition key

Dependent action

eiam:ListOrganizationalUnitParents

get

*OrganizationalUnit

acs:eiam:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:instance/{#InstanceId}/organizationalunit/{#OrganizationalUnitId}

None None

Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example

InstanceId

string

Yes

The instance ID.

idaas_ue2jvisn35ea5lmthk267xxxxx

OrganizationalUnitId

string

Yes

The organizational unit ID.

ou_wovwffm62xifdziem7an7xxxxx

Response parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

Example

object

RequestId

string

The request ID.

0441BD79-92F3-53AA-8657-F8CE4A2B912A

Parents

array<object>

The list of parent organizational units.

object

The parent organizational unit.

OrganizationalUnitId

string

The organizational unit ID.

ou_4lag76zc2km5ssg5vsmm2lznvu

ParentId

string

The parent organizational unit ID.

ou_x3beoyepv2ls5iwuge3xhjkwbm

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{
  "RequestId": "0441BD79-92F3-53AA-8657-F8CE4A2B912A",
  "Parents": [
    {
      "OrganizationalUnitId": "ou_4lag76zc2km5ssg5vsmm2lznvu",
      "ParentId": "ou_x3beoyepv2ls5iwuge3xhjkwbm"
    }
  ]
}

Error codes

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Release notes

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